It was a typical school day in December 1995. I was teaching fifth grade. The topic was the Constitutional Convention. Fifteen minutes into the lesson, it was clear that...
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
President Trump on Sunday posted a map of New Mexico labeled "New America" following the spread of a since-debunked online hoax claiming he had signed an executive order renaming the state. The map Trump shared on Truth Social showed a large "X" over "Mexico" in the state's name, with the word "America" labeled below it....
At least five people are dead following an Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport (MIA), Miami-Dade County officials confirmed Sunday afternoon. The airplane overran the airport's runway at around 2 p.m., according to airport officials. The fatal crash initially caused a complete ground stop at MIA, though two of its four runways are...
President Trump on Sunday announced that the White House helipad — which was redone at his request last month — has been completed. Trump posted a photo on Truth Social of former President Eisenhower on the White House lawn before departing in an Air Force H-13J helicopter in July 1957, becoming the first U.S. president...
Thursday night’s debate between Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Patrick Bateman impersonator Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was framed by Fox’s Sean Hannity as “the great red vs. blue state debate.” A showdown between Florida and California. The highest-profile governors on either side of the political aisle standing face to face (supposedly) to discuss key differences between their policy platforms.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom had their own objectives and advantages going into Thursday night’s highly anticipated debate.
An Oakland City Council vote for a Gaza ceasefire resolution drew wide attention this week as speaker after speaker denounced efforts to insert language condemning Hamas for its murder of 1,200 people in Israel on Oct 7.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) correctly noted in his 90-minute rout of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) that Newsom is a liberal bully. The more accurate term would be “crybully,” and Newsom is the biggest crybully in the country.
In his 2014 autobiography, Robert Gates, who spent three decades at the CIA and served as secretary of defense in the Bush II and Obama administrations, wrote that Vice President Joe Biden had “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Failure falling upward, Biden was president in 2021 when Gates added Biden’s “naive” cut-and-run retreat from Afghanistan to misjudgments such as opposing “every one of Ronald Reagan’s military programs to contest the Soviet Union,” not forgetting the 1990 Gulf War, the 2007 “surge” in Iraq, and the 2009 surge in Afghanistan.
Building a nationwide network of chargers for plug-in cars is not easy because there are challenges involving electrical engineering, civil engineering, and financing. President Joe Biden's current effort to electrify America's highways has another enemy: politics.
Charles Dickens had a knack for creating fictional characters, dozens and dozens of them in every book, so vivid and so individualized in personality, with wonderfully distinctive names, that it was hard for much of his huge readership to believe that these larger-than-life heroes, villains, and satiric figures to be loved, hated, or laughed at hadn't actually existed. They were household names in Dickens's day (1812-1870), and many remain so in our own: Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Sam Weller, Little Nell, Mr. Bumble, Miss Havisham, Mrs. Jellyby, Madame Defarge, Uriah Heep, Gradgrind, Fagin. The chief setting of most of the novels was London, where Dickens lived much of his life. He spent hours strolling the streets of the city looking at possible locations for his fiction, so it was to be expected that his readers would engage in elaborate detective work to do so as well.
Five years ago, Netflix released the first season of its Drive to Survive series, elevating Formula One into the American consciousness and making TV stars out of characters like Haas team principal Guenther Steiner and journeyman driver Daniel Ricciardo. This has not always sat well with veteran stateside followers of the sport, such as your humble author. Why, we woke up at 3 a.m. to watch the races in Asia! We paid outrageous shipping, customs, and foreign transaction fees to wear Europe-only merch from recherche teams like Jordan and Minardi! We sat through the 2005 U.S. Grand Prix, where only six cars started the race, then unhesitatingly bought tickets for 2006, proving that P.T. Barnum was probably too much of a pessimist!
Some middle school students are taught about Francis Scott Key, learning how he penned what would become the national anthem after watching the stars and stripes wave despite British bombardment during the War of 1812.
The unnamed 40-something narrator of Melissa Broder’s latest novel, Death Valley, is running away. A novelist, she leaves her dysfunctional life in Los Angeles and heads to the California desert, where she hides out at her favorite hotel, the Best Western. She’s attempting to escape the two men who grant her meaning but also send her into massive bouts of existential despair: her ailing father and her sickly husband.
Nothing encapsulates the current state of “journalism” quite like attacking a child in order to attack a football team as racist and apparently getting your facts wrong in the process.
